Why not just use Electrum instead of having a HW wallet that depends on Electrum, which appears to be the case with the BitBox?
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Edit: DOH!! I got confused with the Electrum dependence thing--I'm thinking of the Satochip, which I also tried out. You can tell I haven't used either one that much since getting them. My memory, it's slippin'.
Is it clear that when using Electrum without a hardware wallet, the key resides on your PC and exposes it to a larger attack surface?
Anyhow, I like the size of the device and the display. It wouldn't even come close to the Ledger's appeal factor (for me) except for the fact that the BitBox code is open-source (which is why I got the thing in the first place). I'm going to search this section again to see if anyone else has shared their experience with it, but if not I'd like to hear some opinions. I can't imagine none of the HW Wallet section haven't at least tried the BitBox.
I don't have much to add to what was said above, other than the fact it's worth considering they, as a Switzerland-based company, are heavily involved in
AOPP and everyone should make their own judgment on this matter. More on AOPP in
this topic.
One thing that I mentioned somewhere else here in another context is that in the past I had created a 'secondary wallet' for someone in the BitBox software and after a few years when they wanted to access it again, it didn't show up. It was very counterintuitive to get it back: we had to 'create a new Bitcoin wallet' again and there the funds reappeared. They appear to be using derivation paths to allow you to have multiple different wallets under the same seed and without passphrase, but the wallet doesn't store or communicate this information to the host. So in practice, if you get a new PC, it 'forgets' that these wallets exist. It was the only 'bad experience' with this wallet, really.
Oh, and it's way, way too expensive for what you get if you compare it to other hardware wallets.
On the contrary, I find it really well priced. It's 119€ with tax included, has open-source hardware and software and they offer a Bitcoin-only version with reduced attack surface. I also like that you can do SD card backups, which the only really cheaper alternatives (Trezor and Ledger) don't have. This feature alone makes it more suitable for friends & family that I don't trust remembering how to handle, store and restore seed words. It's easier for them to keep the SD card safe and plug it into a new BitBox if it breaks, to restore the seed. It's not a replacement for a proper raw paper backup, but it's a really nice addition.
